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EU Cybersecurity Healthcare Sector Action Plan

Release Date: January 2025

 

In January 2025, the European Commission unveiled an action plan to enhance the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers. This initiative aims to bolster threat detection, preparedness, and response capabilities within the healthcare sector, creating a safer environment for patients and health professionals.

 

Key Components of the Action Plan:

 

(1) Enhanced Prevention: Building capacities to prevent cybersecurity incidents through preparedness measures, including guidance on critical cybersecurity practices and financial assistance via Cybersecurity Vouchers.

 

(2) Better Detection: Establishing a pan-European Cybersecurity Support Centre to develop an EU-wide early warning service, delivering near-real-time alerts on potential cyber threats by 2026.

 

(3) Response to Cyberattacks: Proposing a rapid response service under the EU Cybersecurity Reserve, including national cybersecurity exercises and playbooks to guide healthcare organizations in responding to specific threats.

 

(4) Deterrence: Protecting European healthcare systems by deterring cyber threat actors through the use of the Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox.

 

Modern healthcare has made incredible advances through digital transformation, which has meant citizens have benefited from better healthcare. Unfortunately, health systems are also subject to cybersecurity incidents and threats. That is why we are launching an Action Plan to ensure that healthcare systems, institutions and connected medical devices are resilient. Prevention is better than cure, so we need to prevent cyber-attacks from happening. But if they happen, we need to have everything in place to detect them and to quickly respond and recover.

 

Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy

 

The action plan will be implemented in collaboration with healthcare providers, Member States, and the cybersecurity community, with specific actions rolling out in 2025 and 2026.

 

For more information, you can read the full press release below

EU health cybersecurity action plan

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